About this session

Open up the rest of your life to a growing engagement with something you look at each day... faces!
You probably have someone special in your life whose face you really admire. Well, get more enjoyment from that face by learning to sketch it!
This session will get you started on a lifetime journey.

What will we learn

3-D modelling

I use 3-D modelling in the session to help you analyse the faces we are sketching.

Caricature

Caricature and iterative learning.
We do our first sketch and then consciously exaggerate the vertical and horizontal dimensions.
Monet was an expert caricature artist. Caricature is one of the most effective ways to exercise your visual imagination.

Line and tone

Using a combination of pencil and charcoal to create a very quick and expressive sketch. This example took about 60 seconds.

Profile view

Profile views.

3/4 view

The most common portrait is the 3/4 view, as it presents an assymetric and dynamic view of the face.

Student feedback

Thanks for such an enjoyable session! I certainly feel I could now approach drawing a portrait. Loved your 3-D software.